Photo Retouching - - star burst brush for jewellery fashion photos

singlo · #1 10-08-2006, 02:53 PM

I am looking for realistic star burst brush for retouching jewellery and crystals in fashion phtotos. Anywhere I can find them to download? :

Thanks in advance.

palms1 · #2 10-08-2006, 03:16 PM

Take a look at this thread see if it is any help to you

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/pho...ddingring.html

Palms

singlo · #3 10-09-2006, 07:35 AM

thanks palms1

I have downloaded the badsstars brushes. I have used it on a blank layer on top and applied Gaussian blur. Otherwise it looks very faked using the brush on its own. Any other cool suggestion would be welcomed.

Cassidy · #4 10-09-2006, 07:57 AM

In Photoshop CS2 (I don't know about other versions), if you load the basic brushes (called basic brushes as a separate brush set), you have small starburst which is nice and irregular

vchiline · #5 10-09-2006, 11:56 AM

Hey there,

If you could post a sample of what you mean, we can probably help you out quicker/better.

singlo · #6 10-09-2006, 06:28 PM

thanks. Cassidy, the irregular star brush is not on my CS-2 basic brush menu . Here I used badsstars brush with Gaussian blur radius of 0.6 because starburst in real life seems to have slight halo around it. Mmm maybe there is better way?

Cassidy · #7 10-10-2006, 03:20 AM

Singlo,

Maybe my brush set was renamed or something, but I found the same brush by loading Assorted Brushes, known as Starburst - Small

palms1 · #8 10-10-2006, 08:38 AM

again dont know if this is any use to you, the link to karls brushes is on Flora's post just above babstars

Palms

singlo · #9 10-10-2006, 05:05 PM

thanks palms

Karl's brush looks promising. I thought of one way of making it more realistic:

Apply all stars on a blank layer ,
Duplicate this layer and apply guassian blur on it.
Reduce the opacity of the duplicate layer on top until it shows soft edges around the stars. I am yet to try out though

The other random thought is to find a really realistic star burst in a real photo and extract it using mask or extraction in CS2. Then soften the edges and make it to as a customer brush.